“This is not a call for civil disobedience. It is also not an attempt to undermine the valiant work of developers focusing on trust-minimized technologies. It is the proclamation of the undeniable potential within our grasp as individuals to organize and use technology to elevate our communities.”
#bitcoin #ecash #nostr
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/print/the-financial-anarchist-manifesto
Hamilton Lake sunrise - Sequoia National Forest
Whaddya think nostr:npub10xvczstpwsljy7gqd2cselvrh5e6mlerep09m8gff87avru0ryqsg2g437? Coolest #coffeechain post yet?
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Muy cool. Perro… coolest? No se
GM #coffeechain
#writing
If you try hard enough, it could be
A’ja Wilson from mid-range looks like a damn video game cheat code woof
“They need to actually see the eerie and creepy omnipresent ads online disappear or become wildly inaccurate as they make purchases privately, out of sight of the big data fishing net.” 👌🏼
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/print/choose-privacy
#privacy
Revealing rejected/pending applications makes a ton of sense in principle and it could prevent VC cherry picking or reveal clear conflicts of interest. HOWEVER this might also cause an administrative/political nightmare for the operation and be lose lose. I’m sure there’s fake or disingenuous applications abound which would not be well judged by the public. My gut says let em cook but maybe there’s a middle ground here where all applications above a certain standard are default revealed (proof of x # of prior commits on FOSS projects or something? This is hard).
Also… nothing is stopping applicants from posting it here on Nostr. If their reputation/work is respected by the community then it will pressure Opensats to consider to save their own rep. Like we’re currently witnessing…
All in all FOSS contributors shouldnt feel entitled to some big daddy charity fund to help them though. That’s not the attitude that’s gonna change the world anyway
High Sierra Trail with Whitney summit completed in 6 days. Many grasses were touched. PV 🤙🏼
Beautiful work
Yo 🤙🏼
Good morning #coffeechain and all the community on here I’m slowly building. Gonna be out touching grass for a while. Pura vida. 💙🤙🏼
This is probably an unpopular opinion…but let’s see..
Elon’s smartest move right now would actually be to ally with Zuck…
Hear me out…
An overwhelmingly large percentage of the Brazilian population literally LIVE on WhatsApp and IG. I’m not just talking their friends, and scrolling. I mean this is how almost EVERY business runs. They don’t have websites down here. They build their entire digital presences on those two apps.
If Zuckerberg’s transformation is real (dunno if I’m convinced, but who knows - crazier things have happened) and he allows for the kind of content X allowed to spread in Brazil, this Alexandre monkey would be STUCK.
There’s no WAY he could shut access to that down, without the entire country stopping. Literally nothing would work.
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This is a GREAT moment for Nostr, but we’ve still got a loooooong way to go before the network and the apps on it are robust.
In fact, similar to Wikileaks in the early days, we probably don’t want to draw too much attention right now to Nostr apps bc while the protocol itself is hard to censor, as was just seen, it’s very easy to censor an app.
Granted, it’s a bit like playing wackamole with Nostr, but once again, we’re not there yet. There probably needs to be 10x more *really good* apps, before we could even hope to sustain a forced shutdown in any country for that matter.
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Before anyone says “yeah but they’re only stopping themselves from getting on Nostr”
Duh…obviously. But these maniacs are also fucking over the very people who live in these countries and require some form of connectivity.
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So anyway. Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I think this would be a very interesting strategic play.
And if you play out the scenario, there’s a good chance that idiot de Moraes here in Brazil ends up trapped between:
1. Having to allow X to operate again, or
2. trying to apply the same pressure to WhatsApp / IG
3. allowing IG/Whatsapp to spread uncensored info, and thus losing his ability to censor anyway
All three scenarios, he loses.
Curious to hear what a few people think on this.
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Would be a fun version of the timeline. A very BJJ move lol
Eventually, it’s the value of the blockspace itself that backs it
Open source user/community generated algos controlled by preference sliders would be cool if they came with periodic reminders to reset or refresh your filter bubble. Maybe I’m naive but I believe conscious use of open source filtering/sorting tools (aka algos) can still be useful in some cases.